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Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
I am a snob. Normally, I relegate time travel romances to the slag heap at the end of
each year. But this novel changed the whole genre from a backwater to a raging waterfall,
so it gets its own happy spot in the grown-up list.
The truth is that nothing moved, nothing changed, nothing whatever appeared to happen and yet I experienced a feeling of elemental terror so great that
I lost all sense of who, or what, or where I was. I was in the heart of chaos, and no
power of mind or body was of use against it.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte Press,
July 1991).